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Cisco intros advanced networking semiconductor

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BANGALORE, INDIA – Cisco has introduced the QuantumFlow Processor, said to be the most advanced piece of networking silicon in the world and the industry's first fully integrated and programmable networking chipset.

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Taking over half a decade in the making, the QuantumFlow Processor consists of 40 cores on a single chip and can perform up to 160 simultaneous processes, making it uniquely geared for today's network environments and several generations beyond what is currently available in network processors.

The QuantumFlow Processor was designed by a team of over 100 Cisco engineers and has led to more than 40 patent submissions. Many of the same engineers who developed the Cisco Silicon Packet Processor (SPP) for the Cisco Carrier Routing System (CRS-1), which debuted in 2004, also worked on the Cisco QuantumFlow Processor.

Continued advancements in technology, design and expertise enabled the team to increase the transistor density on the chip from a then networking-industry-leading 185 million on the Cisco SPP to over 800 million on the Cisco QuantumFlow processor. Such density puts it in the tier of some of the most advanced processors developed by leading semiconductor companies.

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